Spokane Stars Basketball

Archive for January, 2010

Maria Kenningston asked:




Are you someone who has been to countless varsity team tryouts? There are a lot of wannabe athletes who never make the cut – guys under six feet tall who aspire to become basketball stars or those walking disasters on the green that would willingly sell their soul to be the next Tiger Woods. Sometimes, sheer determination is really not enough.

Be that as it may, you can still keep playing. As the saying goes, always put your frustration into good use. If you can’t be in the limelight, at least you are keeping yourself fit. With dogged determination, the next bet thing to playing sports as a profession is to play sports for your health. This gets more exciting because sports has entered a whole new level. A couple of years back, there has been a significant change in the methodologies of sports as a means for staying fit. For instance, brute strength is not a primary concern anymore of today’s coaches. Thus, it led to an improved kind of foundation for new conditioning programs.

Playing sports regularly is an important aspect of improving your health and well-being because it provides enough exercise to your body. This depends though, on the sports’ level of activity since some are played more intensely than others. If that doesn’t convince you, here are further reasons to elaborate on why you should get involved in sports.

It keeps your weight in check. Playing sports reduces body fat so you can maintain your desired weight.

It’s good for your heart. Sports can help you put down the level of your blood cholesterol.

It makes your bones stronger. Due to an increased stamina and flexibility brought about by frequent playing, your bones will highly benefit when you play sports.

It will earn you new friends. Not only does playing sports yield positive effects on physical fitness, it also helps you meet new people and improving your socializing skills.

Cade Hiller asked:




There are many different jumping exercises that you can when trying to learn how to dunk for basketball. But most athletes fall into the same destructive patterns of training too much for a short period of time followed by a lack of training because they didn’t get the desired results.

I am here to help you focus on a few jumping exercises that will help you see results in a short period of time. Yes, there are many more plyometric exercises and workouts that you could do, but just focus on these few simple ones for now and you will be okay.

Jumping is all about how much power you can push down against the ground without having any muscle in your legs delay their reaction time at all. This means that if 1 single muscle in your quads, hamstrings, calves, glutes, lower back or stomach is weak it could prevent you from seeing any real improvement in your vertical jump height. So take the time to do some squats and see if there are any areas that are too tight and are preventing you from smoothly going into a full squat and standing all the way back up. If you have tight muscles, they will only become tighter with more training and that will lead to serious injury in the future because tight muscles will pull the joints out of alignment and cause pain with the simplest of movements. The squat will be your very close friend for the next 4 weeks because you will be doing them 3 times a week unless you are sore. Don’t train on sore muscles!